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 Year 10 Geology 

This pathfinder will provide information and suitable websites to help you with your geology project

Subjects/Keywords: These a good words to use for researching your topic.
 Cyclones, floods, landslides, earthquakes, volcanoes, soil erosion, river flood plains, avalanches.

Dewey Numbers: Books with these Dewey numbers are in the library and will help with your research.
050 NZ Geographic (in Library office) Oct/Dec 1995, Apr/June 2000
551, 591, 904

Information File: Look up New Zealand disasters: Napier, West Coast and Murchison earthquakes. floods, Cyclone Bola, geology, volcanoes, world disasters

Internet searching:  Using Google, type in key words "Landslides in New Zealand", "avalanches in New Zealand", "Coastal erosion in New Zealand" and choose coastal erosion and sediment systems, "floods in New Zealand" "volcanic eruptions in New Zealand"

Websites:

http://www.library.christchurch.org.nz/kids/nzdisasters/  This is the best site I found!!
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/australia/new_z.html

www.natureandco.com/
http://civildefence.govt.nz/memwebsite.nsf

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/13/1092340435716.html?from=storylhs
 

Online databases:

Britannica Online http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/
    
login on the left side of the page under the EPIC heading
    login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs. 
    Scroll down to blue highlighted links - 'Britannica online school edition K-12'
    or the 'Discovering Collection' (also biographies and science plus more)
 Choose either Primary, Secondary or High School levels or 'search all levels'

 

                                                                   Prepared by Library Staff March 2008